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I did something and now "Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)" and "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" won't load at boot. I managed to get my Atheros AR5007 wireless working with ndiswrapper, but it only works if theses are enabled. When I boot into Mint and go to "Hardware Drivers", the checkboxes for the two options are checked as "Enabled", but "Not in Use". If I disable and re enable them, my wifi starts up and everything works fine. How can I prevent my needing to intervene?